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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
BUENOS AIRES --
Facing the biggest crisis since filling the seat vacated by her husband, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced Tuesday that a grain export tax increase that has unleashed months of protests by farmers will be debated by Congr
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
LIMA, Peru --
Protesters blockading Peru's southern Pan-American Highway on Tuesday released 47 police hostages they were holding, clearing the way for talks with the government on their demand of a greater share of the region's mine revenues.
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The U.S. war crimes court goes back into session this week as lawyers for defendants look for ways to use a new Supreme Court ruling to derail the prosecution of suspected terrorists.
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Cuban television on Tuesday showed the first images of Fidel Castro in more than five months, broadcasting a silent video of the ailing revolutionary chatting in a garden with visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Mexico threw open the doors to its judicial system Tuesday, allowing U.S.-style public trials and creating a presumption of innocence.
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Soldiers have been deployed to a Venezuelan state governor's office to guarantee the handover of power to an interim leader after the governor was forced to step down to face corruption charges.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has sharply ratcheted up prosecutions of illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the last year, with increases so dramatic that immigration offenses now account for as much as half the nation's federal crim
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
GUANTANAMO --
Venezuela and Spain have vowed to kiss and make up months after a diplomatic spat in which the Spanish king told President Hugo Chavez to ``shut up.''
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos says the two countries have put their
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
WASHINGTON --
The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.
It was largely the w
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Bush administration officials hailed a United Nations report released Wednesday showing that world cocaine production remained flat in 2007 compared with 2006, even though cultivation of the coca leaf in Colombia alone showed a ''shocking'' increase.